Andrew, > For what it's worth, the \< and \> operators are historical - they > originated on the BSD platform, so that is your best bet at > compatibility. For instance, both Solaris and FreeBSD support them. > > As the original author of *BSD ed, I can say with confidence that > these operators used to work across all distributions. So you might > also consider taking up the issue of restoring support for \< and \> > with any *BSD distribution that removed them.
Oh, that’s silly, I didn’t actually check whether BSD ed-s support this syntax. OpenBSD seems to, at least! Thanks for patiently pointing it out! Best of love, -- Artyom Bologov https://aartaka.me
